Why is Object Oriented way of programming such a mantra everyone chants and has been chanting for the whole generation? What is it about encapsulation/data hiding, inheritance, polymorphism that makes the code better than otherwise well written "regular" code?
In case you caught on the "well written" qualifier above and want to say that people cant be relied on to write good code then think about it. Can the people be then trusted to write object oriented code?
The truth that everyone knows is that you can write gibberish in any language.
The more complex a language, more scope there is for a language genius with bad hygiene and civic consideration to screw things up bigtime for the rest of us
Then why do we toot the object oriented horn.
I mean, take a look at the object oriented languages today. They now have things growing out of their ears. Lambdas. New for loops. Were you losing it over temporaries? They fixed it and not worry about your next series of job interviews, grappling with double reference syntaxes. Templates not good enough? Now, learn to keep your big mouth shut please
How about fixing simple stuff. Convert string to upper in C++. Tough luck. You are short-changed in these little places these pesky little shoe-bites
You wanted object oriented? Now eat this: language-assisted decorators. Closures. Heck, I dont even want to go there
We have functions calling each other from the middle of their executions, yakking away like two chatty neighbors from their windows. Where is my clean simple old function-call-returns-and-I-resume-my-work paradigm?
It is now possible to know three different OOPS languages and keep abreast of all? Truth is, if I do that, I am not going to be capable of doing much more than that. Give me my C program back. Please?
